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I love the environment, with the Zelda style rooms. The combat is very unique, but it was really hard to kill stuff. I didn't make it very far. I stared at the flashing death screen for far too long before remembering that you mentioned a restart button in the description.

I actually laughed when on low hp started to spam attack desperately and saw whan happened.
Got rekt in the first room on first try, but after you understand properly how attack works, difficulty (and longevity) is absolutely fine.
Bosses are fine too and I like how they are feeling special because of their ability, similar to yours.
In theory, I would consider hearing two consecutive sounds for the entire game (I mean, attack sounds) is a bad thing. But for some reason, hearing attack sounds in this game satisfies my heart deeply.
Definitely the best game I saw in this Ludum so far. Would love to see this evolving into something more!

this is a really really cool and unique concept! I really like the circles idea, forcing the player to consider rhythm and character spacing.

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The music fits the aesthetic well: gives a sense of exploring a mysterious and decrepit dungeon
However, I think it would be better to make the beat more clear to the player other than bass notes and sparse percussion (speaking from experience, as I spent entire spring semester with a team making a rhythm platformer, and also making the music for it).
I like the beginning where you get to test out the rhythm mechanic before actually going into a room, but maybe add some rhythm percussion or beat indication in that room?

also it seems i can't put out more than 4 circles at a time without breaking a string??
This might just be me, but I feel the tremolo effect on the sitar is a little distracting from the rythm

the pause to restring is a good idea to punish players from spamming, but it seems too punishing:
you lose your circles AND your movement, so you're left with no way to defend yourself.
maybe choose one thing for the player to lose instead of both, like losing circles...or some other way to punish them
because as it is, breaking the string is a guaranteed health loss

the levels appear to be procedurally generated, which is pretty cool,
but some of the levels seem impossible to beat, as in I enter a room,
the door closes, and I'm right in a bottleneck with a bunch of enemies I can't avoid

the art is very well done too! I really like the tileset, player character, and the death animation :D

overall:
this is a pretty cool game, mechanics and art wise. My main issues with it are the beat detection and level design.

Since your gameplay mainly seems to revolve around the player running around trying to avoid touching enemies while shooting the musical circles out, I feel like it would make more sense to make some of the rooms less linear, and more loop-ish, with strategic obstacles to account for the unique way the game is played.

I think this game has a lot of potential, esp if you address those issues (my 2 cents)

you guys are very ambitious, making a rhythm game for ludum dare :O

***i opened up your Mainmusic in Audacity, and the file doesn't line up with the start, there's a tiny bit of space until the actual music starts. I don't know if you accounted for that or not, or I could just be really bad a the game, but that could be an issue.

Great job! Took me a bit to figure out how to attack but after I did everything about this was awesome. Loved the art, loved the music, the death animation got all my lols out. And to top it off it was legitimately fun!

Gameplay on my Windows box was very laggy but it wasn't because of resource usage. Most of my deaths were caused by the lag would have loved to explore more.

Wonderful concept. I love the mood of your game. The game over screen is suprising and really funny.

I like a lot this kind of graphics, and I like your soundtrack.

The game itself is a little hard the first two minutes, but I managed to find a way to attack that was efficient, so it isn't so hard. Of course, you have to pay attention because one little mistake, if you are in a dead end, can end your game, even if you are full of heart.

Yes, please! Great idea, music and art style. For me it's a bit too hard and there are some movement bugs (sometimes the enemies stuck and I think once I got stuck as well).

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